Things Are Finally Setting into Motion

Details are getting finalized at work and it looks like I’ll be moving to LA in April of this year. When I moved back to Hawaii from DC in summer of 2007, I was pissed to be back. I wasn’t ready to settle back in Hawaii, but suddenly here I was, creating a new routine [...]

A Body Meet a Body Coming Through the Rye

I shouldn’t be surprised that JD Salinger died. After all, he was 91 years old. When I told a friend of mine that he had died, she said, “Really? I thought he was dead alredy.” I think this is the first “celebrity” that I actually feel sad about. I mean, I feel sad when anyone [...]

Is This The Quarter-Life Crisis? If So, No Thanks.

For the past two weeks I’ve been waking up at 3:30am feeling anxious, as though I’ve forgotten to do something important. I’ll tear through my apartment, half-asleep, trying to scratch an itch in my brain that I just can’t reach. I’ll check that the stove is off and then press on my front door to [...]

Skip Buying Lunch Today and Help Haiti Instead!

Reading all the stories on various news sites this morning (like the one I posted above) broke my heart.  I’m all kinds of broke right now (my SLR broke and is at the repair shop right now), but I knew I had to donate something.  2010, as I’ve said, is about putting positive energy out [...]

New Year’s Resolutions. Kind Of

I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. Last year, I promised I would exercise, I promised to stop eating fast food, I promised to finish my coursework, I promised to do about a million things that have long left my head. On New Year’s Eve, I thought about all the resolutions I abandoned and I [...]

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